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    20 hours ago

    I love to see it because all the idiots in their gas guzzling, coal rolling trucks get hit way harder than I do.

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    19 hours ago

    wow, that’s actually more than here in Ontario after converting currency and volume units. $2.30 vs $1.60 when I filled up on the weekend

    still quite cheap in the grand scheme of things for what it is

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    I don’t have any context for whether this is expensive or not, but…

    You’re charged LESS for fuel if you let them wash your car? …what?

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      19 hours ago

      because the other two comments didn’t make it entirely clear if you have no idea what this is about: the pump will ask you if you want to buy a car wash ticket as well. if you say yes, you get the lower fuel price

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      The gas station has far higher marginal profit on a car wash than on gas. Also, most of the time you don’t even break even on the supposed savings.

      It’s a trick to get people to spend more money in a way that is more advantageous for the gas station owner.

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    619 dollars for one oil? I’m guessing it’s 6.19/l (or maybe even gallon? Who knows with these) but wow these are awkward to read.

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      Gas prices in the US are in $/gal, so $6.19 per gallon. Some signs just don’t include the decimal.

      I understand your confusion… I went to Canada for the first time recently and their prices are cents per liter, but (much like American prices) that’s not actually indicated anywhere.

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      they didn’t bother with the decimal point just in case.

      I buy my gas at Donny’s Discount gas. 619 8/10ths

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    For context: San Jose is also in one of the least affordable regions in the country. It’s the largest city in the Bay Area with the best weather.

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      We can’t even do that…

      This is kind of the problem. Most small cars aren’t even sold here. For another example, Ford sells the Mustang. Everything else is trucks, SUV’s, and commercial vans.

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        My v8 pickup shuts four of it’s cylinders off when it’s not under load, but I still drive my EV to work.

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      If my conversion is correct, that would be aprox 1.45euro/L for Reguolar. Super close to prior-to-iran-war prices but would love to see them pay 2.50.

      For US netizens, again if I am converting the right way, 2.50eur/L of Regular would be around $11 per gallon.

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          The pump close by at the highway is at €2,579/liter here in The Netherlands.

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            Wow. That’s alot. But Netherlands is so expensive. I love the country but it’s unreal how much you guys pay for stuff.

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          Where I am at right now, 1L of Super E10/95 octane is 2.10euro while Diesel can go as high as 2.29. Outside of the city I have seen 2.29 for Super E10/95 octane.

          Not 2.50 yet, and probably will go down since, allegedly, Iran/USA bombing is done for now. But I cant pass over the fact that it got from 1.60 to 2.20 in a span of one month. Fucking happy my car has 1.2L engine.

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    We are currently dealing with 10 dollars the gallon in Europe so you have a little bit still to go. I can’t imagine the mess this is making in countries that do not have the US or EU purchasing power.

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      Edit: disregard my math, I’ve rounded a gallon to 3 litters because I’m not familiar with freedom units.

      Which country? I’ve checked the historical average in Spain and Gasoil was the most expensive with a 2€/l, gasoline 1.8€/l (tax included), the max I’ve personally seen is 1.78, in a rather expensive chain (Repsol)

      Of course average means there will be a ±0.2€/l depending on the station.

      It would seem that particular station is/was more expensive than most of the ones in Spain ever were.

      Very volatile situation, but hopefully will lead to a reduction of reliance on Fossils (including Trump) in the near future.

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        I looked it up and a gallon is 3,785 Liters. In France gazoil is 2.3€ in the Netherlands 2.6€ for example. The Eu average I can find is 2.115€ for gazoil and 1.880€ for SP95. So on average for the EU it is 8.01€ per gallon and 7,12€.

        So than convert it to Dollars. Some countries (NL, DE, DK) are even aproaching the 10€ the gallon which is nealy 12$ the gallon.

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      Until ur car runs out of gas one time when driving to work, cos 20 bucks doesn’t give u enough gas anymore to drive this far.

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    8.199$/gallon, that’s 1.846 €/Liter Diesel. Meanwhile in Germany I had to fill up at 2.389 €/Liter, at times it’s over 2.50

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      I have seen it up to 2,7€/L here in France. The average price is 2,3€/L yet.

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      Diesel is equivalent to 2 €/Liter in Australia right now. Given that the country runs on diesel, its a nightmare. Even the few people who don’t own cars are hurting, because the ships that bring in food run on diesel, the trucks and trains that bring the food from the ports to the rest of the country run on diesel. The grain producers and cattle farms, some of which are the size of small countries, all run on diesel. The cost of diesel is hitting everyone.

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      brazil here, diesel is 6.49 BRL per liter here, that’s less than an euro, turns out all that sugar cane ethanol did help with something0

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        From what I’ve read, sugarcane is significantly better for making fuel than the corn we use. But the climate in the U.S. obviously not correct for it to be produced at the scale needed, except for possibly small areas in the most southern states.

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          the minimum and maximum ethanol on gasoline is also way higher here, which means more oil saved that can go to produce diesel, brazil is extremely depend on trucks for internal transportation of all goods, including goods that are exported, thus diesel cost has quite a high impact on the cost of everything here, even the relatively small increase here is quite impactful

          one big side effect of the high ethanol is that a lot of old cars really don’t run well on it and can cause significant damage to their engines, and having way less energy per volume means more often refueling which can be quite annoying

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    'Murica - we need to CRUSH Iran 💪

    Also 'murica - why is our gas so pricey? 😭😭😭

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    Oh no, americans have still cheap gas because their pedo leader needs to bomb children. I feel so bad.

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    Sucks that the US is so car-centric. If there was actual public transit (especially of the electric variety), people would struggle a little less.

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      The same thing happened during the pandemic. Cities are built with large zoned swaths for residential, business and commercial all divided. When you can get around easy, that can work. But then suddenly with the WFH shift, entire sections were greatly impacted (such as restaurants in business districts).

      On the other hand, Asian and European cities that have dense mixed use zoning fared much better because the restaurants could serve people regardless if they were wfh or at an office.